DA-MAOS: A Double Auction Multi-Agent
Open-Source Platform for Market Experimentation

Last Updated: 13 August 2008

Site maintained by:

Nanpeng Yu and Ian Guffy

Iowa State University

Ames, Iowa 50011

ynp AT iastate.edu

ian AT iastate.edu

Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE)

DA-MAOS is a test bed developed by Nanpeng Yu and Ian Guffy (Iowa State University) for the simulation of double-auction markets with heterogeneous traders who learn to make their bids and offers over time. Trader reservation values are either fixed at user-specified values or randomly determined. DA-MAOS is programmed in Java making use of the RepastJ toolkit. DA-MAOS provides a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows users to conduct a wide variety of experiments under alternative user-specified conditions.

Software Release Disclaimer: The DA-MAOS software, provided below, is unsupported and provided as-is, without warranty of any kind.

• Detailed DA-MAOS Description Page

Table of Contents for Detailed DA-MAOS Description Page:

• Software Overview
• Using DA-MAOS
• Implementation Details
  • GUI, TradingWorld and RepastJ
  • TradingMarket
  • MarketStyles and TransInfo
  • BuyerAgents, SellerAgents and TradingStyles
  • Random Number Generation
• Software Downloads and Supporting Materials
• Licensing Terms
• References
• Acknowledgements